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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



June 15, 1899. 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



George W. York «& Company, 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



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United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Org-anitted to advance the pursuit of Apiculture ; to promote the interests 

 of bee-keepers ; to protect its members ; to prevent the adulteration uf 

 lione.v ; and to prosecute the dishonest honej'-commission men. 



Alembersliip F(?a—^1,00 per JLmiJiin, 



Executive Committee— Pres., E. Whitcomb; Vice-Pres., C. A. Hatch; 



Secretary, Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. 

 Board of Directors— E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E.T.Abbott; C. P. 



Dadaut; W. Z. Hutchinson; Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 Gen*l Manager and Treasurer— Eug-ene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



F*lacG and Dat& of ^G-xt Aleetiag-: 



In Franklin Institute, 



15 South 7th Street, between Market and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Pa., 



September 5, 6 and 7, 1899. Every bee-keeper is invited. 



VOL. 39. 



ll'XE 15, 1899. 



NO. 24 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthog-raphy of the follow- 

 ing- Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolog- 

 ical Association and the Philological Society of England: — Change 

 *'d" or "ed" final to *'t" when so pronounced, except when the '*e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



Growth of the New York Honey Market. — Formerly 

 there was a demand during- only part of the year, now it is 

 continuous. There is a growing: demand for extracted 

 honej' from druggists and confectioners, and for making 

 honey-cakes, of which the Jews consume large quantities, 

 and much extracted buckwheat is exported for making 

 gingerbread. These items are given by J. E. Crane in 

 Gleanings, and the editor adds that brewers now use glu- 

 cose instead of honey, but bakers use large quantities of 

 honey because it is the only sweetener that will allow the 

 baked goods to remain moist without the expensive addition 

 of glycerine. 



Spreading Anti-Adulteration Information. — Mr. F. A. 



Snell, of Carroll Co., 111., sends us the following which 

 should commend itself to every one of our readers : 



Editor York : — The investigation of foods adulterated, 

 which was made in Chicago and reported on page 313. is an 

 important one. I took that copy of the Bee Journal to the 

 editor of our home paper, and called his attention to the 

 article, and it was freely and gladly accepted and publisht 

 in the June 1st issue, a copy of which I will send you. It is 

 printed in full, and credit duly given. 



Now I suggest that you call the attention of your read- 

 ers to the importance of each one taking a copy of the " Old 

 Reliable" to his editor and secure its insertion. This 

 one thing, so easily done, will be the means of bringing 

 this cursed adulteration business to the greater attention of 



the people. Bj' each reader doing as suggested, it will be 

 read, and food adulteration be denounced by tens of thou- 

 sands of our people who from the very horror of the bad 

 work, will press the importance of legislation, and stringent 

 laws may be secured soon in favor of honest indtistries, and 

 the punishment of the guilt)' rascals — the adtilterators — 

 who have done so much to undermine the health of our peo- 

 ple, and rob the legitimate producer of pure food. 



Let every bee-keeper now promptl)- do good missionary 

 work along this line, and we may as a people reap the 

 benefit in the near future. While conversing with others 

 let us talk this matter up, and present it to our law-makers. 



F. A. Snkll. 



We think Mr. Snell has done well, not only in getting 

 his home newspaper to reprint the article referred to, but 

 also in making the suggestion that others " go and do like- 

 wise." What is needed is more agitation along the line in- 

 dicated. Only those who are in sympathy with evil of any 

 kind want to keep it husht up. Let the light be turned on 

 until dark deeds and deeds that seek the darkness are shown 

 up in all their wickedness. 



Strong laws are needed against food adulteration of all 

 kinds, and the way to get such laws is for those in favor of 

 them to agitate the subject until victory is won. " Keep- 

 ing everlastingly at it brings success " is a good maxim. 

 Keeping everlastingly after wrong-doers is bound to lessen 

 the wrong-doing after awhile. 



Honey for Fine Cakes, Confectionery, Etc. — It seems 

 that not onh' is the use of honey for such purposes on the 

 increase, but the quality of the goods has been much im- 

 proved within the past few years. Editor Root, of Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture, sent to one of the leading establish- 

 ments of the National Biscuit Co., for samples of goods in 

 which honey takes the place of sugar, and in reply received 

 with the samples a note which said in part : 



" We are sending you five varieties of cakes, in the 

 formula for which honey is the principal factor ; besides, it 

 gives variety in flavor different from any other sweetenings, 

 and it makes goods inuch lighter and finer in appearance. 

 The names of the goods are as follows : Honey-jumbles, 

 iced honey-cakes, frosted creams, honey-bars, and honey- 

 cakes plain. We are on the increase every year in the use 

 of honey in the manufacture of cakes." 



Perhaps the most valuable feature of cakes made with 

 honey is their keeping quality. As a test, A. I. Root kept 

 some honey-cakes two years, when they were found to be 

 just as good as new. And we had some in our office for two 

 or three years after the World's Fair, in 1893, that had been 

 made several years before that great show, and they were 

 just as good as ever. Age seemed to have no effect on them 

 whatever, unless it was to improve them. Many baking 

 concerns in this country use extracted honey by the carload ; 

 and some of them seem to prefer the darker grades of 

 honey, on account of their getierally stronger flavor. 



Suggestions for the National Association. — So long as 

 advice costs nothing perhaps it will not be objected to. In 

 the following we think Mr. Moore has given some good 

 suggestions or advice, which we would like to'see acted 

 upon by the otficers of the United States Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation : 



The United States Bee-Keepers' Association has been 

 doing much good in the past, and will no doubt do much in 

 the future to benefit bee-keepers. But there is one thing 

 that might be changed to the end that the Association shall 

 be better advertised than' it has been in the past. Let us 

 have a short report, or article, every month from the gen- 

 eral manager or secretary, or both, on the work the Associa- 

 tion has done for the preceding month, and the new plans 

 that are being made for future work. 



A yearly report may be all right for old members, and 

 those who have put on the harness ; but how about the 

 other 300,000 bee-keepers that we are anxious to get into the 

 fold? 



